[Blog Carnival]: “We travel light. Let’s hunt some Orc.”
When you are a player, you probably don’t need much material to be able to participate in a roleplaying game. You need a pen, some paper and a couple of dice and you’re...
January 22, 2010
Advice
[Blog Carnival]: How to make travel in your games more exciting
There’s the easy way to handle travel in your game and that’s just skipping it: “After four days of eventless travel you reach your destination.” Alas this is not very interesting. Don’t get...
January 21, 2010
Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite rock band?
As a lot of ideas these days, the idea to this post developed on Twitter. Zachary from RPG Blog 2 tweeted about being interested to find out more about gamers’ music tastes. The...
January 19, 2010
Unusual dice
I recently got word of an interesting eBay shop, where Abraham Neddermann sells a couple of unusual and hand-crafted dice. He currently offers several odd dice (like a d3, d5, d7 and d9)...
January 19, 2010
Torso Murders
Warning! This post may contain some minor spoilers for the Trail of Cthulhu introductory adventure . The Trail of Cthulhu introductory adventure which you can find in the back of the book is...
January 14, 2010
Ask The Readers: Netbook at the gaming table
Recently I have been thinking about whether I should buy a netbook or not. As you probably all know I love all kinds of technical toys and I am still missing a netbook...
December 7, 2009
Sex Advice from D&D players
Recently I stumbled upon an article that gives sex advice written by D&D gamers. The article is a bit unclear on who has asked the questions and who were the person (or persons)...
December 2, 2009
Please show me your homemade GM screens! (Update)
On November 5th I asked my readers to send me photos of their homemade GM screens. Alas only a few people have replied so far. If you have a cool homemade GM screen,...
November 16, 2009
Confessions of a lazy GM
I am a very lazy when it comes to preparing roleplaying sessions. When other GMs plan and prepare for weeks I usually make some preparations just mere hours before I start running a...
November 11, 2009
Please show me your homemade GM screens!
Some time ago, the German blog System matters had a post about home-made GM screens. I really liked the idea and linked to that post on my blog and obviously a lot of...
November 5, 2009
Surfing on the Wave
Google Wave is a cool new collaboration/communication platform/protocol by Google. When you haven’t been living under a rock for quite some time, you have probably read about it. Some gamers have recently looked...
October 29, 2009
Medieval town map tutorial
Some days ago, fellow RPG blogger MJ Harnish pointed an awesome map-making tutorial out to me. This tutorial uses Photoshop and the Roleplaying City Map Generator, which I am hosting at my Google...
October 12, 2009
Ask The Readers: Can I use the Kindle as a GM tool?
Amazon is finally shipping its Kindle ebook reader to Non-US customers, too. They still don’t offer localized versions, but at least people from all over the world can order the Kindle from amazon.com...
October 7, 2009
The end is nigh!
The end of the year that is. It’s mid-September now and fall is approaching fast (at least in the northern hemisphere). Perfect time to start a horror RPG campaign! So, why should you...
September 16, 2009